Active and passive immunization strategies based on the SDPM1 peptide demonstrate pre-clinical efficacy in the APPswePSEN1dE9 mouse model for Alzheimer's disease

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• 作者：Marybeth Camboni ; Chiou-Miin Wang ; Carlos Mir ; a ; Jung Hae Yoon ; Rui Xu ; Deborah Zygmunt ; Brian K. Kaspar ; Paul T. Martin
• 关键词：Alzheimer's disease ; Vaccine ; Peptide mimotope ; Amyloid ; Neurodegeneration ; Learning ; Memory ; Synaptophysin ; PSD95 ; Synapse
• 刊名：Neurobiology of Disease
• 出版年：February, 2014
• 年：2014
• 卷：62
• 期：Complete
• 页码：31-43
• 全文大小：2105 K

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Recent clinical and pre-clinical studies suggest that both active and passive immunization strategies targeting A尾 amyloid may have clinical benefit in Alzheimer's disease. Here, we demonstrate that vaccination of APPswePSEN1dE9 mice with SDPM1, an engineered non-native A尾 amyloid-specific binding peptide, lowers brain A尾 amyloid plaque burden and brain A尾1-40 and A尾1-42 peptide levels, improves cognitive learning and memory in Morris water maze tests and increases the expression of synaptic brain proteins. This was the case in young mice immunized prior to development of significant brain amyloid burden, and in older mice, where brain amyloid was already present. Active immunization was optimized using ALUM as an adjuvant to stimulate production of anti-SDPM1 and anti-A尾 amyloid antibodies. Intracerebral injection of P4D6, an SDPM1 peptide-mimotope antibody, also lowered brain amyloid plaque burden in APPswePSEN1dE9 mice. Additionally, P4D6 inhibited A尾 amyloid-mediated toxicity in cultured neuronal cells. The protein sequence of the variable domain within the P4D6 heavy chain was found to mimic a multimer of the SDPM1 peptide motif. These data demonstrate the efficacy of active and passive vaccine strategies to target A尾 amyloid oligomers using an engineered peptide-mimotope strategy.